Everyone and everything
Dattatreya
Datta · Avadhuta · Digambara
The son of the sage Atri and Anasuya in whom the natures of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are combined — the one widely…
Harihara
Shankaranarayana · Hari-Hara
Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara) as one body split down the middle, the ascetic Shiva half on the right and the crowned…
Adi Shankara
The 8th–9th-century Advaita teacher whom tradition credits with recovering the Badrinarayan image from the Tapt Kund…
Guhasura
Guha
The demon of the Harihar charter, who ruled the country between Uchchangi Durga and Airani and won from Brahma the boon…
Ganagapur
Ganagapura · Gangapur
The chief Dattatreya centre of the Guru Charitra tradition, where Narasimha Saraswati established his monastery; the…
Harihar
Harihareshwara temple · Kudalur
Hoysala-period temple town whose Harihareshwara shrine (built about 1223–24 by the minister Polalva) enshrines the…
Mahur
Mahurgad · Matapur
Hill town held locally to be Dattatreya's birthplace, with temples to Renuka (one of Maharashtra's three-and-a-half…
Narasimha Saraswati
The 15th-century ascetic whose life is told in the Guru Charitra and who is honoured in Maharashtra as an incarnation…
Narsobawadi
Narasobawadi · Nrusinhawadi
Dattatreya pilgrimage town where Narasimha Saraswati is said to have lived for twelve years; his sandals (padukas), not…
Harihara, the Vishnu-Shiva composite
A two-god synthesis in which Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara) share one body split vertically, an ascetic half and a…